This whole thing makes me a little nervous. The ignorant masses have been whipped into a frenzy by the media and conservative interests, and then you've got the president all out there talking about the object of all this insane anger.

I know the Secret Service has these sorts of things on lockdown... but we really need to get through the first presidency held by a minority without an assassination.

Further, the same people who were convinced that they needed to stock up on guns and ammo because Obama would try to take them away (of course, nothing of the sort has happened) are just the people I would worried about in any case.

America:

(I don't know why there is a star on the cat's head)_________________When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot

Aside from the star on its head, why doesn't the beast have the full complement of properly placed stars? Liza's cake had 50 stars, aligned to the best of my ability in the proper flag-like shape and distribution. Why do these people hate America and freedom?

Well really, that's not so bad... so we're fine. The sign could have said something about martyrdom and killing leaders. Wait, damnit, the rest of the quotation:

Thomas Jefferson wrote:

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

To be fair, the guy was just exercising his right to be a total fucking asshole._________________When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot

And there is something seriously wrong when quoting the writing of one of the Founding fathers is considered a bad thing.

This is silly. While I do agree that we ought to attach some special importance to the concepts and ideologies embraced by the Founding Fathers, a man in an angry crowd with a gun not-so-subtly alluding to killing the properly (so far as such things go) elected President of the United States as if he were King George is, at best, a dick move... no matter how he says it.

Further, if there's one thing that the structure of our republic does well, it is to make it functionally impossible for all the powers of federal government (all the powers there are to be had, essentially) to be subsumed under one man or office._________________When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot

Governor Tarkin: The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.

General Tagge: But that's impossible. How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?

Governor Tarkin: The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.

A man, who decided not to give his name, was walking around the pro-health care reform rally at 3rd and Washington streets, with a pistol on his hip, and an AR-15 (a semi-automatic assault weapon) on a strap over his shoulder.

Further, the 'it's his right,' argument is both silly and hypocritical: it's silly in the sense that no one disputes this, and it's hypocritical when we think back to the mock outrage from the republicans regarding the burning of American flags, and the dire need for an Amendment prohibiting it._________________When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Children of Dune, attributed to Louis Veuillot

I don't get it. Is the implication that he is armed and wants to revolt against the unjust president trying to reform healthcare? Because, damn, that's one evil thing to do._________________' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'.